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Aurorean

//ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.

    "1783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50, […] a winged seraph […] sipping aurorean dew, and extracting nectareous essences from aromatic flowers."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.
  3. 3
    Of or relating to the asteroid (94) Aurora.
Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of the dawn wordnet

Etymology

Either the Latin aurōre(us) + the English -an or formed from the two English elements auror(a) + -ean.

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